Ethan Marcotteš¦
Iāve decided itās past time I start describing āartificial intelligenceā as a failed technology, and Iād like to invite you to join me.
āThree years into the generative-ai wave, demand for the technology looks surprisingly flimsy.ā
Well. Yes.
Matt Wilcox@beep "You know, this is _almost_ starting to look like a hype driven bubble!"
Chris Finazzo
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Martin Sutherland@beep There's something about this that reminds me of the latest episode of the Decoder Ring podcast, about "protein". Part of the story goes: in WW2 there was a glut of milk production. After the war, the US government propped up farmers who were now overproducing milk. The farmers started to make cheese from the milk, but this produced a ton of waste in the form of whey. Then they discovered they could turn whey into protein powder and now everything has to be packed with "extra protein"...
i.grok@sunpig @beep meanwhile, (some) diabetics really appreciate[d] that because protein slows the absorbtion of carbohydrates, making more food available to safely eat
When you start tracking carb levels in food, it becomes clear that the entire middle of grocery stores is mostly high carb food (meats, dairy, produce, etc tend to be on the edges)
So that fad was incredibly helpful (it's not totally gone but it's largely backed off compared to its height)
@beep I.e., they forced their waste product on the rest of thew world, using marketing muscle to make the world feel like everyone needs more protein. Similarly, the big AI companies are producing so much slop...they need to shove it into every product available, so they can artificially create a market for their toxic waste.